Hail size 2"
1 NW Oakwood Park Clay County
“Social media report and photo. Time estimated from radar. (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Kansas City Mar 10, 2026
The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 1.25" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Kansas City this day.
Largest hailstone
1.25"
≈ half-dollar · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
133,168
Ground reports
64
64 hailThe 4th most severe storm Kansas City has seen in the last 12 months
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
5.9 /10
- Hail size
- 31 /100
- Homes exposed
- 100 /100
- Ground truth
- 100 /100
Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
How Kansas City saw the hail — from two instruments
Two instruments, one storm: NEXRAD logs the point signatures it detected overhead, while the estimated-size surface models how large the hail aloft could have grown. Agreement between them is not guaranteed — the gaps are where the model ran ahead of, or behind, the detections.
Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated maximum hail size across the swath, modeled from radar aloft. It reflects the biggest stone the storm could support, which may differ from what actually fell.
Max size
1.25"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Mar 10, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Kansas City, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Mar 10, 2026 sits in Kansas City's hail record
This was Kansas City's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 5 days after the Mar 5, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 4th of the 13 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Kansas City at 1.25" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Mar 10, 2026 convective day was bigger than Kansas City: the same system put hail over 470 other tracked cities, 63 of them in Missouri. Nearest: Overland Park (11 miles southwest, up to 1.25"); Blue Springs (13 miles east, up to 0.75"); Lees Summit (13 miles southeast, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills from Kansas City's Mar 10, 2026 storm. In the Overview app the same surfaces are live — radar updating in real time, radar-estimated hail size as it forms, and NWS spotter reports pinned where they're filed — with a radar replay you can scrub back over any past day.
What people on the ground reported
These are storm reports filed with the National Weather Service and released through the NOAA Storm Prediction Center — public-domain observations from spotters, the public, and NWS surveys. We quote each one exactly as filed.
Hail reports
64 reports Hail size 1.5"
2 E Lake Waukomis Platte County
“Report from mPING: Ping Pong Ball (1.50 in.). (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.5"
2 NW Oakview Clay County
“Report from mPING: Ping Pong Ball (1.50 in.). (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.5"
1 N Houston Lake Platte County
“Report from mPING: Ping Pong Ball (1.50 in.). (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.75"
1 N Houston Lake Platte County
“Report from mPING: Golf Ball (1.75 in.). (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 3.25"
Parkville Platte County
“NWS employee relayed picture of up to 3.25 inch hail at parents house. (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 2"
1 NE Parkville Platte County
“Report from mPING: Hen Egg (2.00 in.). (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 2.75"
1 SW Platte Woods Platte County
“Spotter relayed report of hail up to just bigger than tennis balls. (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 4"
1 SE Weatherby Lake Platte County
“Social media photo and size estimate. Time based on radar. (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.25"
1 W Platte Woods Platte County
“Report from mPING: Half Dollar (1.25 in.). (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.75"
1 W Platte Woods Platte County
“Report from mPING: Golf Ball (1.75 in.). (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 2"
1 SW Platte Woods Platte County
“Report from mPING: Hen Egg (2.00 in.). (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 2.25"
1 WNW Houston Lake Platte County
“Public relayed hail compared to a quarter... via social media. Estimated up to just larger than 2 inches. (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 2.75"
1 NW Houston Lake Platte County
“(EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 3"
2 SE Weatherby Lake Platte County
“(EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.25"
2 S Raytown Jackson County
“(EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.25"
2 SW Raytown Jackson County
“(EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
2 NE Oakview Clay County
“Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.25"
3 NE Gladstone Clay County
“Report from mPING: Half Dollar (1.25 in.). (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 2"
3 ENE Lake Waukomis Clay County
“Public relayed picture of hail... via social media... estimated to be just larger than golf balls. (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.5"
4 N Oakview Clay County
“Public relayed images of up to around ping pong ball size hail via social media. (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 2.75"
2 NNE Lake Waukomis Platte County
“Public relayed images of very large hail via social media. Estimated up to baseball in size. (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
2 E Lake Waukomis Platte County
“Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 2"
2 E Lake Waukomis Platte County
“Report from mPING: Hen Egg (2.00 in.). (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 3.5"
1 E Lake Waukomis Platte County
“Report from mPING: Baseball++ (3.50 in.). (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 2.75"
1 E Lake Waukomis Platte County
“Report from mPING: Baseball (2.75 in.). (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 2.5"
1 NW Platte Woods Platte County
“Public relayed images of large hail... estimated to around tennis ball. (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
Lake Waukomis Platte County
“Public reported quarter hail. (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 4"
Lake Waukomis Platte County
“Social media report with photo and measurement. Time estimated from radar. (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 2.75"
Platte Woods Platte County
“Broadcast media shared photos of tennis ball hail... with statement of several baseball size stones seen. (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.5"
2 NE Lake Waukomis Platte County
“Report from mPING: Ping Pong Ball (1.50 in.). (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 2.5"
2 NE Lake Waukomis Platte County
“Report from mPING: Tennis Ball (2.50 in.). (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.75"
3 NE Lake Waukomis Clay County
“Report from mPING: Golf Ball (1.75 in.). Time corrected based on radar. (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
1 SW Unity Village Jackson County
“Time estimated from radar. (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
3 W Lake Tapawingo Jackson County
“Time confirmed from radar. (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
3 SW Lake Tapawingo Jackson County
“(EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 3"
2 SW Beverly Hills Wyandotte County
“Social media report and photo. Time estimated from radar. (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.25"
2 S Beverly Hills Wyandotte County
“(EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 2.5"
2 W Parkville Platte County
“Multiple cracked or broken windshields. Time confirmed from radar. (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 2.75"
2 NW Parkville Platte County
“Retired NWS employee reported golf ball to orange hai. (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
Weatherby Lake Platte County
“Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 4.5"
1 NE Weatherby Lake Platte County
“Social media report and photo. Time estimated from radar. (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.25"
2 NW Stanley Johnson County
“Report from mPING: Half Dollar (1.25 in.). (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
3 SE Olathe Johnson County
“Time confirmed from radar. (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
4 E Olathe Johnson County
“Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
4 W Stanley Johnson County
“(EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.5"
4 W Stanley Johnson County
“Updated report. (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
4 SE Olathe Johnson County
“(EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.5"
4 W Stanley Johnson County
“Social media report and photo. Time confirmed from radar. (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.5"
4 E Olathe Johnson County
“Report from mPING: Ping Pong Ball (1.50 in.). (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
2 NNW Stanley Johnson County
“Social media report. (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
2 N Stanley Johnson County
“Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
2 NE Stanley Johnson County
“Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
4 NNE Stanley Johnson County
“Social media report. (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
4 E Olathe Johnson County
“Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
1 NNW Prairie Village Johnson County
“Social media report. (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
1 SW Leawood Johnson County
“Time confirmed from radar. (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
2 WSW Leawood Johnson County
“Social media report. Time confirmed from radar. (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.25"
3 ESE Lenexa Johnson County
“(EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
7 WSW Raytown Jackson County
“Social media report. (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
3 W Grandview Jackson County
“Social media report. Time confirmed from radar. (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.25"
4 N Grandview Jackson County
“Report from mPING: Half Dollar (1.25 in.). (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.5"
4 N Grandview Jackson County
“Report from mPING: Ping Pong Ball (1.50 in.). (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.5"
5 N Grandview Jackson County
“Social media report and photo. Time estimated from radar. (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Storm forensics
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports,
not a radar-measured storm track.
How the storm moved
Hail was reported over 247 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Oakwood Park, Lake Waukomis, Oakview, Houston Lake, Parkville, and Platte Woods — beyond Kansas City itself.
What 1.25" hail means for Kansas City roofs
Quarter-size and larger hail is where asphalt shingle damage starts in earnest: bruised mats and granule loss that homeowners can't see from the ground. Most people inside the footprint won't know their roof was hit until someone inspects it.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$1.6B
Potential roof exposure — 133,168 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
666 jobs
Illustrative work
~$10M
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around March 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
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Kansas City hail history
← All hail in Kansas City 13 recorded storm days in Kansas City, MO
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No ground reports filed 
Jul 8, 2026
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Jul 3, 2026
1" Signatures 1"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 8, 2026
May 31, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1.25"
7
ground reports 
May 29, 2026
Apr 28, 2026
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No ground reports filed 
Apr 26, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1.25"
4
ground reports 
Apr 23, 2026
1" Signatures 1"
3
ground reports 
Apr 17, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 0.75"
5
ground reports 
Apr 15, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
2
ground reports 
Mar 5, 2026
A storm day here is a convective day — it runs from noon to noon
UTC, so late-night hail is grouped with the afternoon storm that
spawned it rather than split across two calendar dates. Ground
reports are public-domain observations from the NOAA Storm
Prediction Center. Radar surfaces are detections and estimates,
not confirmed damage. Last updated Aug 3, 2026.